Wikitravel is a growing concern -- as a project and as a travel guide. This page is for recording some milestones in Wikitravel's history (or future), and for setting up some milestones along the way of where we want to go. It's for gauging our progress, looking forward and looking back.

Figures below refer only to the English version of Wikitravel. SeeMultilingual statisticsto track totals across all language versions.

[edit]Web site

Domain name registered 

February 19, 2003

MediaWiki software installed and operational 

July 24, 2003

First major crash

Database crashed February 20, 2004

[edit]Articles

First article 

Main Page, July 24, 2003

100th article 

 ? (sometime in early August, 2003)

1,000th article 

North Dakota, January 16, 2004

5,000th article

Suzdal, August 3, 2005

10,000th article 

Loveland (Ohio), July 12, 2006

50,000th article(across all language versions) 

Khancoban, August 20, 2009

50,000th article(English) 

 ?

100,000th article 

 ?

Last CIA World Factbook 2002 disclaimer removed from a country article

June 5, 2006

EveryUNESCO World Heritage Sitecovered

 ?

[edit]Users

First user 

July 24, 2003

100th user 

November 7, 2003

500th user 

April 15th, 2004

1000th user 

November 4th, 2004

5000th user 

March 20th, 2006

10,000th user 

November 2006

First banned IP 

User_talk:205.200.236.19on March 17th, 2005, for inexplicable massive vandalism on three separate occasions

First banned user 

User:I-HATE-NIGGERS-WHITEPOWER88on 03:09, 31 March 2007 for 1 month (Violation of script policy)

[edit]Usefulness

First report of someone using Wikitravel article(s) for travel 

Talk:Taiwan#Thanx for the guide, September 23rd, 2004

First report of someone using Wikitravel article(s)exclusivelyfor travel 

"I think printing out excerpts from wikitravel and bring them along from the trip should suffice."[1], March 28, 2006

First paper publication of a Wikitravel article 

 ?

First inclusion of Wikitravel content in a paper travel guide 

JetAwaymagazine, Issue 5 (May/June 2006), "JetStar Asia Destinations" pp. 60-68

First travel guide withonlyWikitravel content 

Wikitravel SingaporebyWikitravel Press, soft launch November 2007, public launch February 2008

First violation of the Wikitravel copyleft 

Detected March 29th, 2004, seeWikitravel talk:Non-compliant redistribution

First #1 Google hit 

Apo Kayan, See[2], Detected April 21st, 2004

[edit]Popularity

First blog entry about Wikitravel 

Logical Disconnect, August 15, 2003

First Slashdot article mentioning Wikitravel 

Wikipedia Criticised by Its Co-founder, January 5, 2005 (indirect reference)

First mainstream press article about Wikitravel 

The Hindu("India's National Paper"), September 15, 2003

First external Web site about Wikitravel (e.g., "ihatewikitravel.org") 

 ?